Right now, the music industry — folks famously quick to wash, rinse, and repeat when they strike gold — thinks your next favorite band will sound a lot like Mumford & Sons. The byproduct won't just be dozens of bands that sound like Mumford & Sons, but perhaps the revival of one of rock 'n' roll's most woefully underutilized formats: the chant. See, a folk revival can only mean good things for the chant. Take as evidence this scrappy Denver trio's song. During the first four seconds, we hear the title chanted and can immediately lock into its rhythmic heartbeat. Virtually every line is punctuated by a "ho hey," and those that aren't get treated with a foot stomp or clap. Intuitively fun, it also underscores the chant's key appeal: In order to sing along to a chant, you don't actually have to be able to sing at all.

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OutKast, "Hey Ya!"

Because of the silky way it's sung, the chorus plays more like a cooing sound than a pair of actual words — making it, oddly enough, the song's most traditionally R&B element.

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The Ramones, "Blitzkrieg Bop"

Because the final ten seconds — in which it's just drums and "Hey! Ho! Let's go!" — are ten seconds that launched a thousand garage bands.

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AC/DC, "T.N.T." (Live 1981)

Because there is nothing in live music more life-affirming than chanting "Oi! Oi! Oi!" in an arena filled with 25,000 other "Oi! Oi! Oi!"-chanting AC/DC fans.

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The Beatles, "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da"

Purely because of nostalgia: For many of us, it was our first-ever rock-'n'-roll sing-along experience.

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Gary Glitter, "Rock and Roll Part 2"

Because part two is as great as part one is awful. Fact-check for yourself.

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Steam, "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye"

Because sometimes the pitcher has to leave the ballgame.

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The Police, "De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da"

Because Sting wrote a "meaningless" chorus that highlights the power of "meaningless" words.

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Van Morrison, "Brown Eyed Girl"

Because you know Sting had to be humming this when he wrote "De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da."

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The Killers, "All These Things That I've Done"

Because the "I got soul, but I'm not a soldier" bit stretches the natural limits of the chant by a few syllables, yet somehow surrenders none of its memorableness.

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Little Richard, "Tutti Frutti"

Because it's the very foundation of rock 'n' roll. And because, to this day, it sounds as filthy as your mind will allow.

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